Digital Scholarship: What Tools and Resources Are There?

 Collections as Data

• Digital Public Libary of America
• Hathi Trust
• Google Scholar

Data Curation and Management

• DMP Tool (Free open-source tool used to create data management plans)
• Google Drive
• MANTRA (Free online training to help researchers learn how to manage digital data)
• Open Refine

Data Visualization

• Tableau Public
• Canva
• Piktochart

Digital Exhibits 

• Omeka.net

Digital Preservation

• Bagger
• LOCKSS
• Archivematica

Digital Publishing 

• Open Journal Systems
• Open Monograph Press
• Pressbooks
• Scalar

Digitization and Imaging 

• Digital Imaging Standards and Best Practices for Indiana Memory, Hoosier State Chronicles, and LSTA Digitization Projects
• Meshroom

Facilitating Collaboration for Campus Partners

• Slack

GIS and Digital Mapping

• Google Maps
• StoryMapJS

Metadata Creation and Digital Collections

• ​Omeka.net

Planning and Management of Digital Scholarship Projects

• Trello

Text Analysis

• Voyant
• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• Python 
• R

Timelines

• TimelineJS

Digital Storytelling

• Adobe Express
• SoundCiteJS

PALNI Press: Supported by the Publishing Services Admin Team, the PALNI Press openly publishes the scholarly and creative content of PALNI-supported institutions. 

• Hyku, a next-generation repository platform
• Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform
• Open Journal Systems, open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals
• Pressbooks, an open source book authoring and editing platform, based on WordPress

CodeSchool (and other training platforms) Facilitation and Support: Offers staff with an interest in developing their programming skills the advantage of participating in CodeSchool and other training platforms. Courses in many different programming languages are available.

CONTENTdm: All PALNI libraries can showcase their special collections using CONTENTdm software designed to provide access to items in various formats. The PALNI Digital Admin Team is available to provide support for the collection building process and making content available to wider audiences via Indiana Memory, Digital Public Library of America, and WorldCat.

InDiPres Digital Preservation System Support: Supports involvement in Indiana Digital Preservation (InDiPres) by offering a stipend to cover a portion of member fees.

Grant Support: The PALNI Grant Support Task Force can help to Identifiyneeds, review proposals, develop timelines, and address roadblocks.

Library Publishing Coalition Membership: PALNI's consortial membership informs the work of the Publishing Services Admin Team and allows participating librarians to engage with this international community of practice

PALNI Innovation Grant: Encourages libraries to take risks and evaluate innovations to optimize or create new library resources and services that expand the support of teaching and learning.

Suma Space Assessment Tool: PALNI provides space assessment software that tracks behaviors of library users.

Request these services and more by contacting staff@palni.edu

Listservs

• ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) Discussion List 
• ACRL DSS Digital Humanities Discussion Group

Conferences and Webinars

• Library Juice Academy Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Publications

• dh+lib: where the digital humanities and librarianship meet
• Digital Humanities Quarterly

PALNI Digital Scholarship Interest Group: This informal group meets regularly via Zoom to discuss digital scholarship/digital humanities, and to focus on helpful outputs for the PALNI schools (such as this LibGuide)

Apply for a Grant: This page lists several grants that may support digital scholarship projects.